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    The wisdom of mass salvation

    by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency Jan 18, 2018 3 minutes

    Incoming! Incoming!

    Uh . . . pardon me while I interrupt this false alarm to quote Martin Luther King:

    "Science investigates," he says in "The Strength to Love," "religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals."

    These words stopped me in my tracks on MLK Day. They seemed to fill a hole in the breaking news, which never quite manages to balance power with

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